Other Private DNS Server How-To

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We recommend you to use an alternative DNS server, instead of your Internet service provider DNS that is usually used. Reason for that is because Internet service provider DNS is usually slow, stores the requests and blocks certain sites. If you use our VPN, you don’t need to have fixed preferences, which could also result in a so-called DNS Leak ( more on that ). Here is a selection which DNS server you can use:

Click "Use the following DNS server addresses:" and wear to the two DNS server addresses is important that a DNS server of "Preferred DNS server is "registered. The alternate DNS server is optional, but recommended there should be registered also a server. In the example I have entered the Google Public DNS servers.

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Step 1
Open System Preferences and click Network.Step 2
Select your Ethernet adapter, and click on More Options .Step 3
Click on + and add the IP addresses of the selected DNS server (eg 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 ). Step 4 Then click on OK .Step 5
Under DNS server the registered IP addresses should be listed.

For OSX: Under step 2. When you say "Select Ethernet adapter" do you mean the VPN connection? Under step 3: can I add any of the DNS addresses mentioned above? All of them? If so I have added IP addresses the OpenDNS and 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 but still cannot open any website.

I also need a little clarification here. When it says to get an IP address from my administrator,, who would that be? someone at my internet provider? Or am I the network administrator? I am afraid there is a lot I don't understand. I am unable to connect to any webpage thru VPN

This is so confusing. So many things to fix and I still can't get it right. When I connect to the Canada connection I cannot access any webpages no matter what I do. I ch3ck3d for the dns leak, found one, did the fix, then couldn't even connect to the vpn any longer until I removed the fix from my computer.

I have the DNS servers set up correctly, from the open dns side ,when i run my vnp side of things the web page says its not there.the vpn is connected , but when i look at the network and sharing center ,my local internet side is connected but the vnp side is not connected [ no network access ] , it says.SO if i turn of the Vpn side , my internet works again

So I have set up the DNS servers from OpenDNS as per the windows 7 tutorial, but my DNS is still leaking... I live at Uni campus so I always connect through the campus (public) Wifi. I am just using the vpn settings of windows itself, no separate client to run the VPN.

Also I have set up a kill switch through Comodo Firewall, I'm not sure if that makes a difference?

Final question, does it matter what public DNS I use? If I want my connection to be private and encrypted, should I use a public DNS like OpenDNS or Google's DNS server? Or does this not matter?

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Overall it's important that all requests are not bypassing the VPN connection and that is only the case if the DNS is a router in the local network (i.e. 192.168.0.0/24). Then Windows will not send this request through the VPN. So if you add a public DNS to your nic the setup should be fine.